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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Buck Doesn't Stop Here

I have struggled to come up with something to write for the
past several weeks.The issues that have
surfaced recently are all things making repeat appearances.The Obama administration is consistent if
nothing else.It was in this déjà vu
that inspiration was found.The fact
that this president is currently confronted with multiple situations resulting from
questionable conduct is no surprise.His
political grooming was the product of the notoriously corrupt Chicago political
machine. An upbringing producing an
engrained mindset that the rules were meant for other people and persuasion is
achieved through intimidation.A brutish
approach that is inherently self-destructive though.Simple arrogance quickly evolves into a sense
of political invincibility.Without
bounds and being placed on a pedestal by throngs of blindly devoted followers, transgressions
are inevitable.

Properly dealing with bothersome situations requires a tried
and true strategy.The tactic of choice
for the current administration is a combination of an initial frontal assault
followed by siege warfare.First come
the waves of administration lackeys.They
relentless drive home the decided upon narrative, minimizing the event’s impact
and deflecting the damage of even the most irrefutably incriminatory fact.Once these lines have been established and
fortified with solidarity of unaccountability, it is time to employ the siege
machines of delay, stonewall, and deny.Regardless
of how asinine the answers or excuses may be is of no concern; their only purpose
is to consume time.Time is the enemy of
truth.Like a slow moving glacier grinding
away at the landscape below, time erodes enthusiasm. The longer the fog of doubt can be maintained,
the quicker the attention grabbing sensationalism is lost and with it the public’s
interest and support to seek the truth.Boredom
is this administration’s Excalibur. By
dragging things out the truth is felled, as the inherently impatient nature of
the American people is exploited.If you
want something to just go away, hunker down and wait it out, the next shiny new
object is right around the corner.

Go with what works.This
is the answer to the question of the day asking why this administration
continues to respond in a nonchalant manner to mounting charges even in the
face of increasingly damning evidence.Being
action and reaction creatures; the reactions and consequences our past decisions
generated are key ingredients in future decisions.Success is rewarded with repeat performances
while failures are pulled from the lineup. Since inciting division and exploiting a
distracted America have worked like charms, only a fool wouldn’t continue to
rely on them.President Obama is many
things, but a fool is not one of them.

Anything that threatens to impair this president’s quest to
implement his progressive agenda is open season.Truth interestingly happens to fall into this
category.So out come the president’s
supporters with the well-worn message of Republican partisanship, racism, and
ignorance as the true source of the nation’s problems.Then it is simply a matter of beating this
drum until the American people are numb. Results: the Fast and Furious debacle is
still unresolved and basically forgotten, and the Benghazi attack was dismissed
for eight months as a hazard of diplomatic service with the cover-up being nothing
more than a result of conflicting intelligence.A struggling economy that would have sealed the fate of any other
incumbent presidential candidate wasn’t even a factor in the election.Now the IRS’ targeting of conservative
organizations for intimidating scrutiny is nothing more than a few overzealous
low level IRS agents, while the Justice Department’s extended monitoring of multiple
reporters’ phone records was in the interests of national security.Though the results have been generally good
for the president there is one last wrinkle to really seal the deal, saying you
don’t know how or why anything happened even though you are the one in
charge.Interestingly, somewhere along
the way it became acceptable for leaders to not be responsible for or aware of the actions
of their subordinates.Looks like it’s
time to break out the Sharpie and make some edits to President Truman’s sign as
it is quite obvious the buck doesn’t stop here.

President Obama has been the benefactor of a high and
relatively consistent level of support from the American people.While his tenure has been one littered with
scandals and missteps he continues to move forward with the air of an
accomplished national leader, a confidence borne of the knowledge that he is
immune to accountability.He has a
battle tested plan of deceit for dealing with any bumps in the road, and no
qualms about using it.The Chicago Machine
should be proud of its prodigy.He
learned well. When this is augmented
with the cooperation of the administration’s greatest ally, the press, you have
a formidable instrument of manipulation.Any scandals will quickly fade from the national stage or never get a
chance to be on it.Of course covering
ones bases should all else fail is essential.The fail safe is being able to shift the blame elsewhere.Selecting a proper fall guy is a skill this
administration is getting plenty of practice with, but one they are going to
need to perfect given their propensity for dismissing truth and the rule of
law. Doing whatever is necessary to
seize and increase one’s hold on the ultimate prize of power is the name of the
game.A game this administration will do
whatever is necessary to claim victory in, even at the expense of the truth and
the American people.

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